Man, If you go into any regular gym and properly squat 405, you're a strong dude. Nothing to downplay.
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Lifetime bench PR for me today. 400 x 1. Finally hit that 400 club
The goal today was 10 total reps, no matter how many sets it takes, with 90% of my 1RM. So I loaded 405 on the bar and went for it. Ended up doing it in three sets; 4/3/3. The last 3 reps were my best reps of the 10. This beats a previous PR where I had a similar rep scheme for the 10 reps but used 390lbs bar weight. So its basically a 15lb PR.
PRs from the meet this weekend:
squat 556 (~16 pounds PR)
Deadlift 628 (5 pound PR)
1509 total (~16 pound PR)
Not sure when I've really ever done this before, but reverse band deadlifts up to 903x1 with a medium band that completely runs out at the top of the knees
Also, where is everybody at on this thread? Did everybody stop lifting??
Conventional Deadlift 835 x 2
This was a PR double, even though I had a lot more in the tank. I was pulling on a combination of 45's and comp kg plates, so the bar was a bit more flexible than usual, but I'm preparing for a big deadlift in the animal cage, and that means lifting on standard 45's and 100's, which flex a lot more than comp plates. Definitely an advantage if your form is good.
You sticking with conventional for now, or are you gonna start working the sumo back in?
I hit a little reverse band PR the other day, myself...went 635x5 on a setup I’d only tripled before, then 685x2.
Nice! sounds like a big PR then with the 685 double.
I'm going to be pulling conventional in the Animal Cage this year and probably at my first meet 4 weeks after that, although I'm torn because I'm stronger conventional right now but I have a harder time setting my grip in due to a lack of external rotation in my left shoulder (the underhand arm). I'm trying to address it, but it doesn't present the same problem for sumo since I can get my grip between my knees...for whatever reason that helps. So I'm torn at the moment basically
Well thanks to your “ok, let’s add more weight” I hit two sumo PRs yesterday in Fayetteville lol. Most I had ever done was 420 x 2. So the 2 sets of 5 @ 405 was definitely a rep pr. And the 475 sumo block pulls was also a PR. I told my wife “When Dan Green tells you add another plate, you do it” lol